American Film in the Crisis of Confidence

John P. McCombe

doi:10.5771/9781666974430

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-7442-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-7443-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 212
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. The Idealist No access
2. Energy, Austerity, and Family No access
3. The Speech No access
4. The Malaise Sets In No access
5. The Covenant No access
6. The Scope of “the Malaise” No access
7. The Chapters No access
8. “A Vision for America” No access
9. The Business No access
10. Fast Times No access
11. Notes No access
1. A Growing Appetite for Energy: Comes a Horseman No access
2. Family Obligations and Other “Bad Habits”: The Long Riders No access
3. Big Business on the Closing Frontier: Tom Horn No access
4. The Limits of Western Individualism: Heaven’s Gate No access
5. Wish Fulfillments and Comedy Westerns: Goin’ South, Cattle Annie and Little Britches, and The Frisco Kid No access
6. Museum Pieces No access
7. Notes No access
1. “It Ain’t Manhattan”: Saturday Night Fever No access
2. Emerald City, 1978: Eyes of Laura Mars and The Wiz No access
3. “Nowhere to Run”: The Warriors No access
4. “All Kinds of Ways to Get Killed”: Cruising, Dressed to Kill, and Maniac No access
5. The New Police State in Fort Apache, The Bronx and Escape from New York No access
6. Notes No access
1. “One Community from the Many”: The Outlaw Josey Wales No access
2. “Compromised Masculinity” Restored: The Gauntlet No access
3. Escaping the Cage? The Philo Beddoe Films No access
4. Being Anything You Want: Bronco Billy No access
5. Combating Moral Chaos without the Family in Sudden Impact No access
6. Notes No access
1. Patriarchy In Peril: Grand Theft Auto and Corvette Summer No access
2. Driving without Pleasure: The Driver No access
3. Oil as a Global Currency: Sorcerer and the Mad Max Series No access
4. “Government Is the problem”: Americathon, Smokey and the Bandit, and Convoy No access
5. “Auto-horror” in The Car, Christine, and Used Cars No access
6. Notes No access
1. Richard Pryor and the Limits of (Auto)mobility: Silver Streak, Car Wash, and Blue Collar No access
2. Consumerism and Masculinity in Independent Productions: Dawn of the Dead and Killer of Sheep No access
3. The Difficulty of Getting Over: The Black Male Body in Ragtime, White Dog, and 48 Hrs. No access
4. Women of Color and the Malaise Recession: A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich, Bustin’ Loose, and Flashdance No access
5. Notes No access
1. Apocalypse Now: The Dark Side Overcomes No access
2. Star Wars: “In It for the money” No access
3. Having Faith: The Empire Strikes Back No access
4. Return of the Jedi and the End of the Malaise No access
5. Conclusion: Post-Malaise Hollywood No access
6. Notes No access
1. Alien (5/79) No access
2. All That Jazz (12/79) No access
3. American Gigolo (2/80) No access
4. Bad Timing (9/80) No access
5. Being There (12/79) No access
6. The Big Chill (9/83) No access
7. Blade Runner (6/82) No access
8. Breaking Away (12/79) No access
9. Coal Miner’s Daughter (3/80) No access
10. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (12/77) No access
11. Coming Home (2/78) No access
12. The Deer Hunter (12/78) No access
13. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (6/82) No access
14. Girlfriends (12/78) No access
15. Halloween (10/78) No access
16. HealtH (4/82) No access
17. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (12/78) No access
18. King of Comedy (2/83) No access
19. Mommie Dearest (9/81) No access
20. Ordinary People (9/80) No access
21. Pennies from Heaven (12/81) No access
22. Poltergeist (6/82) No access
23. Polyester (5/81) No access
24. Raiders of the Lost Ark (6/81) No access
25. Raging Bull (12/80) No access
26. Reds (12/81) No access
27. Risky Business (8/83) No access
28. Saint Jack (4/79) No access
29. The Shining (5/80) No access
30. Smithereens (11/82) No access
31. 3 Women (4/77) No access
32. Tron (7/82) No access
33. Videodrome (2/83) No access
34. Winter Kills (5/79) No access
Index No access Pages 203 - 210
About the Author No access Pages 211 - 212